Percolator Pedals With Steve Albini
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- Опубликовано: 24 мар 2008
- At Chicago's Electrical Audio studio, owner and guitarist Steve Albini took some time to wax poetic on the Harmonic Percolator guitar pedal and some of the clone attempts over the years.
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Shellac played my friends warehouse in Philly in 94'. I was there when they got paid. Steve was figuring out the money on his calculator wristwatch. This pleased me greatly
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This is the best youtube comment ever
fuck yea. where abouts in philly. damn i woulda loved to been there
Steve Albini does extensive research on the classic tones of Clapton, SRV and Eric Johnson, and then asks people to build gear that sounds the exact opposite.
Best comment on this whole comment thing…”ding!”
listening to albini ramble like a madman for 5 minutes while wearing ridiculous kangaroo stilts is more interesting than any pedal demo.
He's much taller then I expected.
he's wearing kangaroo stilts
@@indigotheindieghost7214 No he's not.
@@42ndStreetMatthew yeah, and he's not playing guitar either
@@indigotheindieghost7214 Thank you for your agreement.
This man owns an espresso machine.
Watching Steve walk around on those stilts was exhausting!
He’s the Noam Chomsky of underground music
This makes so much sense holy shit
So he’s a douche then…. Like Chomsky ?
@@lilacrain3283 Chomsky sucks.
RIP Steve Albini 💔💔💔
Straight up phone dropped his pedal designers number like a legend.
Just rattling up there like dried beans.
So cool hearing him play Dude, Incredible in 2008
Steve Albini is a mad genius. I would love to have a beer with him and ask him how it was working with PJ Harvey.
If you ever get the chance, ask him if it's true PJ hired him because she thought he recorded Spiderland..
He's worked with hundreds of bands, he could write a monumental book about his experiences
jdessell He's teetotal.
Albini is the Willy Wonka of sound
"rattlin' around like dried beans."
I wonder if Steve Albini has ever driven around in pick up truck playing and was playing his 8 track really fucking loud
See this video ruclips.net/video/zffvhNrhYiM/видео.html
"still up there, rattaling around like dried beans"... freakin hilarious steve...
2:00 - first time ive ever heard him laugh! :)
steve albini is a wild card
I love that building
its time for the perkalator!
0:10 wasn't expecting that
is that the riff from dude incredible? lol
hooray for openmindedness
Steve Albini celebrates Christmas!?
Steve Albini celebrates christmas by distributing evil guitar pedals and telling children santa isn't real
His parents are italian like me, you CAN'T celebrate Christmas eheh
@@thepuppethead1188so he spreads misinformation
I'd like to hang out with Steve, he seems really cool
Best pedal review ever. The Chuck Collins HP-1 Harmonic Percolator is the closest to the real thing, if you’re interested.
oh, we both got circular glasses, thats rare! other than that I work on single string distortion which goes rather the other direction :-)
"Sometimes you want it to just sound horrible". Thats what a Boss Metalzone is for Sir.
RIP Steve
RIP Mr albini
Rattling around like dried beans.
Wait, is Steve Albini a nerd or a dork?
both
He's a geek
he's a chad
A genius and badass musical dynamo.not to mention his awesome lyrics.
The answer is Yes.
I remember back in 80s buying some underground Detroit punk magazine printed on a photocopier just because he'd written an article titled "How to tell if you're a geek".
It was just a long list of things like "You have a star trek mug"
"Jerking off to star trek"
"jerking off to videos of yourself jjeeking off to star trek"
"Get a hard on when you see a cow"
for a whole page of small type.
I was 13 or so. I wrote big black the most embarrassing letter begging to be let in the club when they played in our California town. I remember starting with some comment about my parents yelling at me to turn the album down. I'm sure they tossed it immediately but I like to think they put it in a box of most cringey tour mementos ever, along with stained underwear tossed on stage and a disturbingly sticky autographed picture of captain Kirk the drummer found in Albini's guitar case.
i see your point of view but as long as'im interested i how the pedal sounds (expecially brought to life by a pro like albini is) i still belive what i said...
cheers!
there's a fish in the percolator
@aselfishimpulse I saw him give a talk to about 50 people (Where the fuck was everyone else? Philistines...) Came across as a lovely bloke actually, very keen to answer questions and talk with the audience. Cool guy.
Haha. Me too!
Why the does he have those things on his legs
Should be playing a G&L Legacy into a '65 Soho.
god, i want one of those....
Just lolled at the way you hang your guitar...
apinakapinastorba I think he knows a thing or two about guitar...
Yeah, it's still funny
what a goof
No, was he?
Rest in peace to a Legend.
Sounds nasty. Want it.
this audio recording makes steve sad
I don't understand any of this, but I'm going to watch it again.
What is this dude tweaking on?
Can he even play guitar that low?
what's with the stilts?
ha! i thought he said j tillman!!!!!!!
Where can i get a PROPER one? I've look at like 20 on the internet and they all sound just like regular fuzz and distortion pedals.
Nine of Swords -HEADACHE- HARMONIC PERCOLATOR.
available from THE FUZZ SHACK.
Get the Chuck Collins HP-1 Harmonic Percolator. It’s the closest to an original HP-1.
Chuck took my original HP-1 apart to find the values and build it.
RIP
R.I.P.
albini>you
DAmn Steve you can’t play the radio
lol. ok then. im sure you and cky will be best friends when you meet them after paying 30 dollars for one of their concerts.
lol what is he wearing on his feet?
cretin stilts
i was greatly disapointed by him talking about even order harmonics. thats all fun and games until the input signal isn't a perfect sinus, but a natural guitar wave, which is asymmetric by nature
When doe he juggle the bananas and set his hair on fire
Jesus I thought he'd never shut up
oh to be a sound engineer nerd and do silly things on stilts
is he drunk???
When people are talking about this pedal, and the name S.A. has to come up...what song are they talking about that has this great sound? I like shelac and big black, big black not quite as much, but it's about the drums...I don't hear this amazing guitar sound. I hear what sounds like a misused eq pedal. What tracks has he made where the percolator shines? Not this one...
ruclips.net/video/XXzZ0GncaJc/видео.html
THAT is this sound that people just can't get with ...any eq pedal?
I'm going to continue with this...S.A. was kind of a bad influence on 9os rock. There I said it. Not because of him, but because of the way he was treated, like Yoda, by the press. Don't 'over produce' anything, little to no reverb. Toss out the guitar effects. It kind of ruined indie rock. When Ok computer came out, a lot of the people I knew were like 'sure it's interesting, but there's no way they can do it live, so really it's kind of fake..." which was a very indie rock sentiment, until they show up on the Jools Holland show and demonstrate that YES, you can play this live. So much for the 'I'm not a producer' approach.
Albini doesn't actually use the Harmonic Percolator much - for a good demonstration of the extreme noise the Percolator puts out, check out the feedback-laden noisy parts of Crow from At Action Park or the jet engine roar halfway through Rapeman's cover of Just Got Paid. That slashing scratch guitar tone is the work of the Intersound IVP preamp that Albini uses as an amp, which does indeed have a weird EQ setup that gets really clanky and metallic when you push the high frequencies.
Also, Albini's influence on production I'd say has been nothing but positive. Every record he's produced is clear and powerful, it makes a band sound like the best version of itself. He's worked with atmospheric, densely-orchestrated acts much like Radiohead before and they still sound like that, just with that clarity and full-frequency-range power, plus the deeply-felt performances that come from mostly live recording. He's "not a producer" in the sense he doesn't try to alter what the artist intends to do with their music - no "this should be the big glitzy single," no "audiences won't like that, cut it." Indie Rock snobs demanding music be stripped of everything that's not guitars-bass-drums has nothing to do with Steve and everything to do with pretentious 90's ideas about "keeping it real" spawned from debacles like Milli Vanilli. Hell, you kinda made the point he's always made about the importance of the live performance to recordings since Radiohead's ability to recreate all these experimental sounds is what made them stand out - imagine how much weaker those songs would sound in concert if they couldn't recreate those arrangements.
Monobrow on the Rapeman lp is a good example.
The fuck is he wearing???
Well you aren't wrong
My only problem with Steve A is that he doesn’t like Big Star and considers Big Star fans (like me) “dilettantes”.
Yeah but he would respect you if you told him fuck off douche I like the music I like go fuck yourself.
drugs
Sober
rugs
Pugs
mugs
Harmonic percolators
too much talking, not enough playing
Howard Ulyate how so?
Good mix of useless and boring. Hey thank you
Mark seems like blues demos from guitar center is your cup.
@@nickfanzo that is freaking awesome l
bet his ass liked Nevermind
Sounds like your life.
Nevermind was a badass record.period.has all of us beat...hell,Steve and all his output has all of us beat...for life.
RIP legend